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The Inverse Relationship Between Liquidity and Impact: Results from Toniic’s Groundbreaking 10-Year Study of the Practices of Top Impact Investors
There has long been a debate about whether impact investing must involve a tradeoff between social or environmental impact and financial returns. But as Adam Bendell at Toniic argues, there's a different question that has not garnered as much discussion in the sector: whether investors also face a tradeoff between liquidity and impact. He shares new data from Toniic’s T100 Project — a 10-year study of impact investors' practices and preferences — which shows convincingly that investors need to accept illiquidity for greater impact, and finds plenty of investor appetite for that tradeoff.
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Azerbaijan, Islamic Development Bank Join Forces to Boost Pakistan’s Road Infrastructure
Azerbaijan plans to invest $2 billion in various projects throughout the country, with a portion of the funds allocated to enhancing the national road network.
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Latin America Venture Capitalists Nazca, Bridge Merge to Combine $300 Million in Assets
Venture capital firms Nazca and Bridge announced a merger that will combine assets worth over $300 million, in an effort to expand their footprint in Latin American startups.
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Shifting from Aid to Entrepreneurship: A Better Response to Forced Displacement
In 2024, the number of forcibly displaced people worldwide reached nearly 123 million. According to Mary Mwangi at Inkomoko, this growing reality, coupled with shrinking humanitarian aid, demands a new response. Instead of seeing forcibly displaced people as passive recipients of aid living in costly refugee camps, she urges the global development sector to view them as individuals with entrepreneurial drive and economic potential. She explores how Inkomoko is working to empower displaced entrepreneurs in Africa through financing, skill development and access to markets.
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Saudi Arabia’s IsDB Commits Over $1.4 Billion to Advance Development Goals Across Eight Member Countries
Approved projects in food security, health, education, and transportation support achieving the SDGs.
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Miliband Calls on CEOs to Fill Gap Left by Cuts to Government Aid Budgets
Companies have a self-interest in helping to address problems governments are retreating from.
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Analysis: An Opportunity to Build, In the Crisis
As philanthropy rallies to the defense of the nonprofit sector, how money is spent is as important as how much.
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IFC and IDB Invest Forge Partnership with Itaú Unibanco to Issue First Bond with a Focus in Biodiversity and Social Initiatives in Brazil
This marks Itaú's first bond with a focus on biodiversity, aimed at increasing access to credit for green projects.
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- Environment, Investing
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